splenetic

Example Sentences

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And Carlin’s routines, particularly from his splenetic, late-period specials, have hardly lost their punch.

From New York Times • May 11, 2022

These are things that just make us splenetic, things we fall in hate with, even though they are easily ignored.

From Washington Post • May 8, 2022

But dragging a 16-year-old into this splenetic, self-serving bar brawl makes a dangerous new level of provocation that should not go unchallenged.

From The Guardian • Aug. 17, 2019

His older brother was into heavy-metal music, and Drnaso began to join him at concerts and record stores, developing a love for splenetic bands like Acid Bath and Agoraphobic Nosebleed.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 14, 2019

Beneath the splenetic cupola of the heavens, their feet trudging through the dust of an earth as desolate as the sky, they journeyed onwards with the resigned faces of men condemned to hope for ever.

From The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker by Baudelaire, Charles